Continued from Part Fifteen In Pittsburgh, Commander Justice Jr. dashed to the jewelry store with its door hanging wide open. This call on the police scanner sounded like one Janus was sure to answer. Where is he? A tied up man and a woman flew through the air and landed on the pavement. Janus stepped…
Continued from Part Fourteen The Sword drew his blade and walked into the cave where Dark Mystic had killed Ice Cube. “Mystic, show yourself.” Dark Mystic stepped from the shadows. He held a flame thrower pointed at the Sword. The Sword frowned. “Is this a truce or a battle?” Dark Mystic laughed. “Jesse, I believe…
Continued from Part Thirteen Ian Bucknell sat as he had for months in his own personal Hell of his own mind as his ever-present demonic symbiot raged. “You fool!” Jalzabel growled. “If not for our forces at Squall’s bank tipping us off, and the good work Janus here did, we would all be in custody.”…
Continued from Part Eleven Junior stood outside Zach Wallace’s down-town New York office. Junior picked up his cell phone. The caller ID indicated it was Grandpa. “Hey, Junior, how goes it?” “Just finished filling out the property loss forms for the Justicemobile, and I’m headed to see Zach Wallace. How are you?” “Hospital food is…
Continued from Part Ten Sariah Miller walked to her car. “Ms. Miller?” said a man behind her. Sariah turned. Janus stood behind her in all his tacky gold latex body paint glory. She said, “I’m afraid you’re at the wrong comic book company, sir.” “No, I’m not here for business. I know you haven’t had…
Continued from Part Eight Dave Johnson scaled Mount Everest, rub-bing his pounding temples. How much longer would this take? Two weeks now of fourteen and sixteen hour days researching unusual deposits, and all he had to show for it was a slim few leads, a whole lot of dead ends, the financial profiles of 1,300…
Continued from Part Nine Commander Justice, Jr. stared over the ravine at the burning Justicemobile. Now, it’s an even worse environmental disaster. The paramedics rolled by the gurney with Captain Justice on it. “Let me off this thing. I’ll be fine with a little bed rest.” A paramedic said, “You’re lucky to es-cape that car…
Continued from Part Seven On the way to the Justicemobile two days later, Captain Justice said, “I hope Zach’s info is worth the trip.” Junior shrugged. “It’ll be better than what Riley had.” “True enough.” Captain Justice got in the driver’s side with Junior sitting in the passenger seat. They drove out of the garage,…
Continued from Part Six Outside Dr. Squall’s home, Cardin sighed. “Not a blasted clue anywhere.” Captain Justice frowned. He found that hard to believe. “No maps? No com-puters?” “All gone. We know something was there. The lab was full of electric outlets, plus Jaden found an eight months old ele-ctric bill for $10,000, which means…
Continued from Part Five Small Packages entered the chapel in the village square. Highland Guardian sat in a pew, reading the Bible. “Hey, do you have time for a con-fession?” Highland Guardian looked up and shook his head. “I’m Church of Scotland. We don’t do confession. But I’d be happy to talk to ye.” Small…